TY  - BOOK
AU  - Irwin,Alan
TI  - Sociology and the environment: a critical introduction to society, nature, and knowledge 
SN  - 0745613594
AV  - GE170 .I78 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge, UK : Polity Press, Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA, USA
PB  - Blackwell Publishers Incorporated
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Human ecology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages [194]-203) and index; Preface	; 	Introduction	1; 1	Sustainability as Social Challenge	31; 2	The Risk Society Thesis: The End of the World as We Know It?	50; 3	Science and the Social Construction of Environmental Threat	70; 4	Risks in Context: The Local Construction of Environmental Issues	90; 5	Institutional Judgements and Contested Decisions: The Governance of Environmental Problems	113; 6	Kamikazes and Chromosomes: Sociological Perspectives on Technology	136; 7	Society, Nature, Knowledge: Co-constructing the Social and the Natural	161; 	Notes	188; 	References	194; 	Index	204
ER  -